Denys Val Baker was born in Yorkshire in 1917, he moved to Cornwall as a writer with a career that spanned more than 50 years.  The classic 'coming to Cornwall' story, this book gives a frank account of life as experienced by a professional author who with the gallant efforts of his wife Jess  - could hardly type fast enough to feed his growing family, or pay the mortgage on a series of strange and ever larger homes.
This is a reprint, originally published in 1962 it has never been out of print.